Artificial fish bait and fish lure and method of making the same



Sept 5 1950 F. F. WEBER ARTIFICIAL FISH BAIT AND FISH LURE AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Filed Aug. 15. 1948 Frank E Weber INVENTOR.

5 BY m Patented Sept. 5, 1950 Q ARTIFICIAL FISH BAIT ,ANnFIsH LURE'AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME Frank F. Weber,' Yorkville, Ill. .1 Y I Application August 13, I948, Se ia! N01, 44,078 I. I

4 Claims. (-01. 43-4224) t. 1 2 In fishing with live bait, especially with worms, and into the bend or curve of the fish hook as the bait will not stay upon the fish hook, and indicated in Figure 3. The latter operation may piercing the bait by the hook kills or mutilates the be effected by attaching an end of a string or bait, so that the fisherman must be continually thread 9 to the first knot as at Ill, then threading putting new bait on the hook. said cord or thread through the several folds of An object of the present invention, therefore, the worm adjacent the shank of the fish hook by is to provide a novel method by which a durable means of a needle or the like as at H, and then natural appearing artificial bait may be made and pulling on the free end of said cord or thread and effectively mounted upon a fish hook. securing it to the second knot as at l2.

Further objects are to provide a novel method it) My artificial worm may be pierced by the fish of making an artificial bait or lure, and to prohook without any serious detrimental effect and vide the bait with a taste which will tend to make the worm will effectively remain on the hook fish bite the bait. The material of which the worm is made is so soft Another object is to provide an artificial bait and flexible that the free ends will wiggle to prowhich will stay on the fish hook and entice the duce results similar to those pr y natural fish to bite. worm. The member 5 may be impregnated or Still another object is to provide an artificial saturated before or after mounting it on the hook. worm which will wiggle in the water, and which From the foregoing description, it is believed will be so durable as to last a long time in actual that the nature and advantages of t Present fishing. invention will be readily understood and appre- A still further object is to provide a novel fish e a d y these Skilled in the art. W le I have lure composed of a fish hook and a novel artiillustrated merely by Way f ple an embodificial worm thereon. ment of the invention involving an imitation The exact nature of the present invention will worm, it w l be ppa that the invention co become apparent from the following description prehends production of other forms of imitation when considered in connection with the accombait and the use thereof with a fish hook in P panying drawing, in which: ducing a fish lure.

Figure 1 i n enlar e perspective vi of an Having described the invention, what is claimed imitation worm embodying the present invention; as new is! Figure 2 is a side elevational view showing 1. The method of making a s lu p initial steps in mounting the worm of Figure 1 mg tying a knot n a length of colored y on a fish hook to make a fish hire i accordance near each end thereof to provide a member somewith the present invention; what resembling a worm, and passing the pointed Figure '3 is a View similar to Figure 2 showing end of a fish hook through ne of t e ts, t a subsequent step in making the fish lure. several times through the member at regular Referring in detail to the drawing, the present intervals, d then through the other knot. invention comprehends the provision of an artif methodhf making a fish lure compllsficial fish bait comprising a member 5 which is of mg tying a knot a length of colored yarn near a fom to somewhat resemble a natural fi h bait each end thereof to provide a member somewhat and which is made of absorbent textile material, 40 b ng a worm, and passing the pointed end said member being suitably colored and being imof a fish hook through One Of the knots. then pregnated or saturated with material which is Several times through the member at regular tasty to fish. The bait illustrated is an imitation intervals, and en through the other not unt Worm made of a suitable length of suitable colthe member s mounted on t e sha of t e ored yarn saturated with tasty juice of fish, liver, book in Serpentine form, and then hurlehing and or the like, and having a knot is tied therein near vi h me r ow rd d p r ly in o the each end thereof. space between the shank and the pointed end of In using the worm of Figure 1 to make a fish e 1 lure, the pointed end of an ordinary fish hook I 3. The method of making a fish lure comprisis passed through one of the knots 6, and then ing tying a knot in a length of colored yarn near several times through the yarn at regular intereach end thereof to provide a member somewhat vals as at 8, and then through the other knot 6 resembling a worm, passing the pointed end of until the worm is mounted on the shank of the a fish hook through one of the knots, then sevfish hook in serpentine form as shown in Figure 2; eral times through the member at regular inter- The worm is then bunched and moved toward vals, and then through the other knot until the member is mounted on the shank of the hook in serpentine form, attaching an end of a thread to the one knot and threading it through the several folds of said member adjacent the shank of the hook, then pulling on the other end of 5 the thread to bunch and move the member toward and partly into the space between the shank and the pointed end of the hook, and then securing the thread tgthe other knot.

fish, ur mnr a fi 19 5, and a artificial worm comprising a length of colored yarn having a knot near each end thereof, said hook passing through the knots and, several times through the yarn at regular intervals, between the knots and intermediate the folds of the yarn, the yarn being bunched: on the, hook, and partly projecting into the space, betweenthe shank and the pointed end of Said hook.

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